Juliana Hatfield Quotes

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

You learn more doing than doing training.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

All directors are different. Certainly, the directors that I respond to the most are guys that figure it out by doing it, not by thinking or studying. Also, the kind of actor that I think I am - I learned about theater doing theater, not studying theater. I think that traditional school can be great, but also it can stifle original thought.

I like to learn through doing. Let me make a mistake, and then critique me on what I did so that I learn that way.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work or studying for work. It is work.